MechanicsofLaminated CompositeStructures

NachiketaTiwari IndianInstituteofTechnologyKanpur

Lecture40 Closure

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Thislectureseriescanbecategorizedintosevendifferentmodules. The1st moduleisintroductoryinnature.Here,thebasicnatureof compositeshasbeendescribed.Thismoduleaddresses:
Advantagesofmoderncompositesvisvistraditionalengineeringmaterials materials. Applicationareasofmoderncomposites Qualitativeintroductiontowhycompositesbehavethewaytheydo. Keymechanicalpropertiesofdifferenttypesofmatrices matrices,fibers fibers,andwhiskers whiskers. Classificationofdifferentcompositematerials. Importantterminologyrelatingtocompositematerials. Introductiontotermslikeistotropy, istotropy orthotropy, orthotropy andanisotropy. anisotropy

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Thesecondmoduleaddressesbehaviorofunidirectionalcontinuousfiber composites p indetail.Thismoduleaddresses:
Materialaxesforaunidirectionallaminate Differenceinfailuremechanismsincompositesvisvisisotropicmaterials Key ystrength g p parametersofaunidirectionalcomposite p Conceptsofvolumeandmassfractionforfibersandmatrixmaterials Predictivemodelsforlongitudinalstiffness,lateralstiffness,longitudinaltensile andcompressivestrengths,etc. PredictivemodelsforPoissonsratio,coefficientofthermalexpansioninprincipla materialdirections. HookesLawforanorthotropiclamina Modelsforcalculatingengineeringconstantsforanorthotropiclaminain arbitrarydirections. Transformationofstress,strain,stiffnessandcompliancematrices Differentfailurecriteriaforcomposites

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Thethirdmoduleaddressesbehaviorofalaminatedcompositeplates.This modulecovers:
Kirchhoffsassumptionsforplates. Variationofstrainfieldinaplateoveritsthickness Through g thicknessvariationofstressfieldinaplate p Definitionofmidplanestrainsandcurvatures Definitionofforceandmomentresultantsandtheirvariationacrossplates thickness Definitionof[A],[B],and[D]matrices Roleofdifferentstiffnessmatrixcomponentsininfluencingmechanicalbehavior oflaminates Featuresoffrequentlyusedlaminationsequences

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Thefourthmodulecoversequilibriumequationsandtheirsolutionforsemi infinitep platesusing gexactmethods.Themodulecovers:
Equilibriumequationsforalinearlyelasticcompositeplate Importanceofoutofplaneshears,andapplicationofappropriatecorrectionfor suchloads Differentboundaryconditionsonfouredgesofarectangularplateandtheir physicalinterpretation Closedformsolutionsforasemiinfiniteplatewhichissimplysupportedattwo edges.
Twosetsoflaminationsequencesstudied:Symmetric,andunsymmetric.

Anticlastic curvature R d dbending Reduced b di and dextensional t i lstiffness tiff Responseofsemiinfiniteplateswithnonzero[B]matricestoinplaneloads ModifiedHookesLawforthermalstresses Th Thermal lstressesin i semi iinfinite i fi i plates l

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Thefifthmoduleusesequilibriumequationstosolveproblemspertainingto finitep plates.Themodulecovers:
OverviewofcommonlyusedsimplificationapproachestosolvePDEs.
Boundaryconditions A,B,D,matrices PDE Kinematicrelations

Seriessolutionmethodforasimplysupportedrectangularplateloadednormally. Convergenceofdifferententities Rectangularplatesimplysupportedontwoedges

ApplicationofcorrectionstosolutionforaplateSSonallfoursides

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Thesixthmoduledetailsenergybasedmethodstosolveproblemsof composite p p platemechanics.Specifically p yitcovers:
Principalofvirtualwork Notionofresidualerror,andintegralofresidualerrors. Galerkinmethod SpecialGalerkinmethod ExamplesusingGalerkinmethod Strategies g forimproving p gaccuracy yofGalerkinbasedsolutionapproaches pp InfluenceofD16 andD26 onoutofplaneresponseofcompositeplatessubjected tonormalloads Totalpotentialenergyprinciple Weakandstrongformulations Differentiabilityrequirementsforweakandstrongformulations

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Theseventhmoduleaddressestwokeyconcepts:nonlinearity,andstability. Further, ,inthismodule, ,theproblem p ofbuckling ghasbeenexplained p by yusing g conceptsofstabilityandnonlinearity.Specificallyitcovers:
Nonlinearstraindisplacementrelations Notionofstaticstability y Criterionforequilibrium Criterionforstability Metastablestates, ,andassessing gstability yofthesestatesusing g4th order variations Bucklingequationforrectangularcompositeplates Solutionofbucklingequationfortypicalplatetopologies:
Semiinfiniteplate RectangularplateSSontwoedges RectangularplateSSonalledges,andwhichisloadedbidirectionally

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Theeightandfinalmoduleaddressesbehaviorofshortfibercomposites. They yhavebeendealtwithinthismodule, ,becausethey yareusedinavery y largenumberofapplications.Themodulecovers:
Backgroundinformationaboutshortfibercomposites Loadtransfermechanisminshortfibercomposites p Longitudinalandtransversemoduliforshortfibercompositeswithunidirectional alignment Modulusofrandomlyorientedshortfibercomposites Loadtransfermechanisminshortfibercompositesafterincorporatingplasticity ofmatrixmaterial Improvedmodelsforpredictinglongitudinalandtransversemoduliforshortfiber composites i